SIDNEY

See also:

• COLVIN, JOHN RUSSELL (1807—1857)
• SIDNEY COLVIN (1845– )

COLVIN (1845– )  , English Iiterary and art critic, was born at Norwood, London, on the 18th of June 1845 . A scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, he became a fellow of his college in 1868 . In 1873 he was Slade professor of fine art, and was appointed in the next year to the directorship of the Fitzwilliam Museum . In i884 he removed to London on his appointment as keeper of prints and drawings in the British Museum . His chief publications are lives of Landor (1881) and Keats (1887), in the English Men of Letters series; the Edinburgh edition of R . L . Stevenson's works (1894–1897); editions of the letters of Keats (1887), and of the Vailima Letters (1899), which R . L . Stevenson chiefly addressed to him; A Florentine Picture-Chronicle (1898), and Early History of En-graving in England (1905) . But in the field both of art and of literature, Mr Colvin's fine taste, wide knowledge and high ideals made his authority and influence extend far beyond his published work .